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What is updater.exe?

Part ofUpdater by Ask

What is it?

The Ask Toolbar is a free browser add-on that allows you to search the Web using the Ask.com search engine directly from the Internet Explorer browser. The Ask Toolbar is integrated with the 3rd party software downloads. During the installation of some software, users are presented with an option of downloading the Ask Toolbar. This is the software update portion of teh toolbar which automatically checks for new versions and updates the toolbar.

What if I disable Updater?

If this is disabled the Ask Toolbar will not be automatically updated whan a new version of the toolbar is available. However removing this program will not effect the performance of the Ask Toolbar.

Description of updater.exe from Ask

“The Ask Toolbar is a free browser add-on that allows you to search the Web using the Ask.com search engine directly from Internet Explorer or Firefox browsers. The toolbar software DOES NOT monitor the websites visited by the end user, collect or in any manner report any information about what sites an end users visits (or any click stream activity), nor does it monitor or scrape information when you are on other sites. In short, the Toolbar provides a superior search experience on an ANONYMOUS basis and without any additional monitoring, contextual ads or other nuisances.”

How does updater.exe run?

Process - updater.exe is an instance of a running program. This 64-bit program executes with the privileges as the currently logged in user account.

How does updater.exe start?

Startup files (all users) run - updater.exe is registered with the run identifier 'ApnUpdater' and the execution command '"C:\Program Files\Ask.com\Updater\Updater.exe"' in the Windows registry HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Run keys are startup registry keys that are used to launch an application automatically when any Windows user logs into Windows.

Community

What is the community is seeing?

What is the community is doing?

About 0.5% of all Boost users have the updater.exe process running.

Of the 0.5% of updater.exe users, 84.0% have disabled it.

How resource intensive is updater.exe?

Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.

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